Kent, sorry but ...
Kent A. Reed wrote: > Gentle persons: > > There was a flurry of messages earlier that touched on running ethernet > to barns and such using either cat-5 cable or wi-fi. Sorry I was in no > position to respond at the time. > > I was surprised no one mentioned powerline ethernet technology (or was I > just not diligent enough in reading the traffic?). .... > I see two possible shortcomings in the powerline ethernet approach > > (1) the run to the remote site may be too long for the technology to > perform at an acceptable speed. Use your favorite search engine to find > the current vendors and dig through their sites for performance info. > > (2) this solution may turn out to be more expensive because these > adapters aren't commodity products and there's not enough competition. > Still, it's always possible you can find them on eBay, Craig's list, or > even in your neighbor's junkbox (when I upgraded, I gave my first > adapters to an enterprising teen-aged experimenter I know who's long on > ideas and short on funds). > > I think anyone faced with expanding their ethernet empire should > estimate total costs and benefits of the all available approaches before > forging ahead. > 3. Broadband Over Power Line (BPL) should be banned: http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/ We have enough interference from bad transformers and other components in appliances already. No need to say more. > Regards, > Kent > -- Rafael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
